Specializing in Nutanix as a WEI pre-sales architect, I’ve seen how transformative the Nutanix Cloud Platform has become for enterprise IT teams striving to modernize their infrastructure. Now that WEI has achieved Nutanix Premier Reseller status within the Nutanix Elevate Partner Program, that transformation becomes even more attainable for our valuable customers.

Why Does Premier Status Matter?

Earning Premier Reseller status further cements that WEI can deliver fully validated, cluster-ready Nutanix environments that integrate into existing enterprise networks.

For our customers, that means fewer unknowns and faster deployment. Every Nutanix cluster we deliver is tested, imaged, and validated as part of our unique and proven Integration & Testing Lab before it leaves our facility. Avoiding the costly drop-shipping model, we deliver systems that are ready to plug into your environment on day one.

This hands-on integration approach has always been part of the WEI difference, and it’s one of the biggest reasons organizations come to us for their modern hybrid cloud initiatives.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters: The Foundation for a True Hybrid Multicloud

From my architectural perspective, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are one of the most powerful enablers of hybrid multicloud architecture today. NC2 gives organizations the flexibility to extend their private cloud into public cloud providers while maintaining the same management interface, security policies, and software stack they already trust on-prem.

What makes NC2 so compelling is the speed it brings to enterprise transformation. Nutanix reports that customers can reduce deployment timelines from 18–24 months to as little as 3–6 months. This is a dramatic improvement for teams that face long lead times and integration challenges when moving workloads between environments.

By standardizing operations across data centers and public clouds through a unified software layer, NC2 allows enterprises to deploy workloads faster, reuse existing licenses, and avoid costly re-architecture efforts. It also aligns with Gartner’s guidance on distributed hybrid infrastructure, providing a consistent platform for workload mobility and governance across clouds.

Basically, this means IT leaders are better positioned to achieve the long-awaited “agility” of public cloud while maintaining the control and predictability of private infrastructure. This is a balance that sits at the heart of modern hybrid cloud design.

Helping Customers Build the Modern Hybrid Cloud

In most conversations I have with IT leaders, I hear the same goals: improve control, reduce operational friction, and build a foundation that’s cloud-ready, all without adding unnecessary intricacy.

With WEI’s guidance, organizations can use NC2 to:

• Deploy clusters faster
• Migrate workloads more smoothly
• Maintain consistent management across hybrid environments

I’ve worked with clients who went from traditional three-tier infrastructure to Nutanix-powered hyperconverged platforms that delivered measurable results. This means faster provisioning, easier scaling, and reduced lifecycle costs. When combined with WEI’s pre-configuration and lifecycle support, the result is a predictable, high-performing hybrid cloud that’s ready for anything from VDI to AI workloads.

Partnership That Extends Beyond Deployment

Achieving Nutanix Premier Reseller status reinforces our long-standing collaboration with Nutanix engineers and our shared commitment to measurable outcomes. What I enjoy most about this partnership is seeing customers gain confidence in their infrastructure strategy. When a customer unboxes a Nutanix cluster that’s already optimized for their network and ready for production, with WEI’s engineers standing by around the clock, that’s when they see what working with a Premier Reseller really means.

Together, we help medium and large enterprises modernize legacy environments, align resources to workload demand, and prepare infrastructure for future innovations like AI integration and edge computing.

My Final Thoughts

Nutanix and WEI together offer the foundation for this future. Through the Nutanix Elevate Partner Program, WEI’s status as a Nutanix Premier Reseller positions us to help enterprises adopt modern enterprise cloud infrastructure and deploy hybrid multicloud solutions that support innovation and control.

To learn how our WEI team can help design and implement an enterprise cloud strategy tailored to the needs of today’s digital business, or contact WEI today.

Next Steps: As organizations reevaluate their virtualization strategies in response to rising costs and vendor uncertainty, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) emerges as a powerful alternative. In the original WEI tech brief, , identify a practical guide to evaluating your next steps for operational modernization.

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Specializing in Nutanix as a WEI pre-sales architect, I’ve seen how transformative the Nutanix Cloud Platform has become for enterprise IT teams striving to modernize their infrastructure. Now that WEI has achieved Nutanix Premier Reseller status within the Nutanix Elevate Partner Program, that transformation becomes even more attainable for our valuable customers.

Why Does Premier Status Matter?

Earning Premier Reseller status further cements that WEI can deliver fully validated, cluster-ready that integrate into existing enterprise networks.

For our customers, that means fewer unknowns and faster deployment. Every Nutanix cluster we deliver is tested, imaged, and validated as part of our unique and proven Integration & Testing Lab before it leaves our facility. Avoiding the costly drop-shipping model, we deliver systems that are ready to plug into your environment on day one.

This hands-on integration approach has always been part of the WEI difference, and it’s one of the biggest reasons organizations come to us for their modern hybrid cloud initiatives.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters: The Foundation for a True Hybrid Multicloud

From my architectural perspective, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are one of the most powerful enablers of hybrid multicloud architecture today. NC2 gives organizations the flexibility to extend their private cloud into public cloud providers while maintaining the same management interface, security policies, and software stack they already trust on-prem.

What makes NC2 so compelling is the speed it brings to enterprise transformation. Nutanix reports that customers can reduce deployment timelines from 18–24 months to as little as 3–6 months. This is a dramatic improvement for teams that face long lead times and integration challenges when moving workloads between environments.

By standardizing operations across data centers and public clouds through a unified software layer, NC2 allows enterprises to deploy workloads faster, reuse existing licenses, and avoid costly re-architecture efforts. It also aligns with Gartner’s guidance on distributed hybrid infrastructure, providing a consistent platform for workload mobility and governance across clouds.

Basically, this means IT leaders are better positioned to achieve the long-awaited “agility” of public cloud while maintaining the control and predictability of private infrastructure. This is a balance that sits at the heart of modern hybrid cloud design.

Helping Customers Build the Modern Hybrid Cloud

In most conversations I have with IT leaders, I hear the same goals: improve control, reduce operational friction, and build a foundation that’s cloud-ready, all without adding unnecessary intricacy.

With WEI’s guidance, organizations can use NC2 to:

• Deploy clusters faster
• Migrate workloads more smoothly
• Maintain consistent management across hybrid environments

I’ve worked with clients who went from traditional three-tier infrastructure to that delivered measurable results. This means faster provisioning, easier scaling, and reduced lifecycle costs. When combined with WEI’s pre-configuration and lifecycle support, the result is a predictable, high-performing hybrid cloud that’s ready for anything from VDI to AI workloads.

Partnership That Extends Beyond Deployment

Achieving Nutanix Premier Reseller status reinforces our long-standing collaboration with Nutanix engineers and our shared commitment to measurable outcomes. What I enjoy most about this partnership is seeing customers gain confidence in their infrastructure strategy. When a customer unboxes a Nutanix cluster that’s already optimized for their network and ready for production, with WEI’s engineers standing by around the clock, that’s when they see what working with a Premier Reseller really means.

Together, we help medium and large enterprises modernize legacy environments, align resources to workload demand, and prepare infrastructure for future innovations like AI integration and edge computing.

My Final Thoughts

Nutanix and WEI together offer the foundation for this future. Through the Nutanix Elevate Partner Program, WEI’s status as a Nutanix Premier Reseller positions us to help enterprises adopt modern enterprise cloud infrastructure and deploy hybrid multicloud solutions that support innovation and control.

To learn how our WEI team can help design and implement an enterprise cloud strategy tailored to the needs of today’s digital business, or contact the WEI team today.

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Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. From natural catastrophes like floods and fires to cyberattacks and hardware failures, unexpected events can cripple a business’s operations. These seismic events cause downtime – which equates to lost revenue, damaged reputations, and a potential competitive disadvantage.

This is where disaster recovery (DR) comes in. Regardless of your business environment – physical, virtual, or cloud-based – we’ll outline how you can craft a well-defined DR plan to ensure you can bounce back quickly from disruptions, and minimize downtime and its associated costs.

Downtime Is Expensive

Unplanned downtime causes significant financial impact in multiple areas of a business. This leads to:

• Lost productivity
• Increased customer dissatisfaction because they can’t access essential services, which could lead to customers switching to a competitor.
• Potential legal repercussions, depending on the nature of your business and the impact of the outage.

Beyond the , as revealed by a Gartner study, downtime inflicts long-term damage on your reputation. This is why a proactive and robust DR strategy is essential to significantly reduce the risks associated with outages.

Tailoring DR Strategies For Optimal Recovery

An effective DR plan goes beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. It hinges on two key elements: prioritizing critical business functions and carefully assessing them. When conducting this assessment, consider classifying your workloads into three tiers.

• Tier 1: Mission-Critical Applications – These are the heart of your business, responsible for core functions like sales processing or financial transactions. Recovery for Tier 1 applications needs to be swift and seamless, often within minutes of an outage.
• Tier 2: Important Applications – These applications support daily operations but aren’t mission-critical. Think of email servers or internal communication tools. Recovery for Tier 2 applications can be less immediate but should still be prioritized.
• Tier 3: Non-Critical Applications – These are applications used infrequently or for non-essential tasks. Backups are sufficient for Tier 3 applications, with recovery times being less time-sensitive.

Categorizing applications allows you to tailor an effective DR strategy. This ensures you focus resources and recovery plans on the most critical applications, enabling a faster and more efficient overall recovery.

Cloud DR: A Cost-Effective And Flexible Solution

Powering public cloud providers such as AWS and Azure, Nutanix offers reliable DR solutions for business continuity. It’s not just limited to cloud-based applications, though, as this solution is also applicable to both physical and virtual business environments.

Cloud DR solutions offer seamless integration with virtual environments. This means your virtual machines (VMs) can be easily replicated and activated in the cloud during a disaster. This ensures a swift recovery of your applications and data.

For physical environments, cloud DR utilizes software agents installed on physical servers. These agents continuously replicate server data to the cloud, guaranteeing a recent copy is always available for restoration in case of an outage at your physical location.

Some cloud providers even offer bare metal recovery options. This allows you to recover your physical servers onto virtual machines (VMs) hosted in the cloud. This approach is flexible and gets your physical systems back online faster.

Regardless of the business environment, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) offers several advantages that transform your strategy:

• Effortless Scaling: Cloud resources can be adjusted on-demand to meet specific recovery needs. This eliminates the need for excess on-premises infrastructure, saving you money during normal operations.
• Cost-Optimization: The cloud’s pay-as-you-go model eliminates upfront capital expenditure on hardware and DR infrastructure. You only pay for the resources you use, leading to significant cost savings.
• Geo-dispersed Protection: Cloud providers offer data centers scattered across various geographical locations. This allows for swift failover to a secondary site in case of a disaster, minimizing downtime.
• Remote Management Flexibility: DR sites hosted in the cloud can be set up and managed remotely. This eliminates the need for dedicated IT staff at the secondary location, streamlining your DR operations.

Overall, cloud DR offers a versatile solution for protecting both physical, virtual, and cloud-based business environments. It simplifies DR management, reduces costs, and ensures faster recovery times during disruptions.

Nutanix Clusters And NC2 For Seamless DR

Nutanix, through Nutanix Clusters and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), is a terrific option for disaster recovery because it offers several advantages over other cloud providers. Nutanix Clusters is the core offering that provides an on-premise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution combining computing, storage, and virtualization.

Meanwhile, NC2 allows you to run Nutanix Clusters not just on-site, but also in the cloud, with consistent management experience across both environments. This lets you leverage the familiar Nutanix functionality even when expanding your infrastructure to the public cloud.

The benefits of utilizing both Nutanix Clusters and NC2 are:

• Simplified Disaster Recovery to Public Clouds: NC2 extends the Nutanix environment to public clouds like AWS and Azure, creating a hybrid multi-cloud platform. This makes it easy to replicate your data and failover to the cloud in case of a disaster. Nutanix DR solutions use a tool called Nutanix Cloud Connector (NCC) to handle this process smoothly. NCC orchestrates the failover between your on-site environment and the public cloud you’re using for DR.
• Perfect for Cloud Migration: The familiar Nutanix platform simplifies the transition and minimizes disruption to existing processes. Businesses leverage their existing Nutanix expertise to manage their cloud DR environment.

Beyond The Cloud DR Tools

While cloud resources like Nutanix can be a powerful DR tool, a successful plan requires more than just the adoption of technology. Each organization should also consider the following best practices:

• Identity And Access Management (IAM): Strong IAM protocols ensure that only authorized users can access critical systems during a disaster recovery event. Multi-factor authentication and least-privilege access controls are crucial for safeguarding your data.
• Network Connectivity: Reliable and secure network connections between your on-premises environment and the cloud are essential for seamless failover. Our team of experts at WEI can assist you in designing and implementing a resilient network infrastructure to support your DR strategy.
• Cloud Security: Implement robust security measures to protect your data in the cloud, including encryption and access controls.

Final Thoughts

highlight the importance of protecting your business and data. Cloud-based DR tools offer significant benefits, but they are most effective when paired with meticulous planning.

WEI understands that an effective DR strategy requires a solid foundation as our team simplifies cloud DR. We tailor solutions that seamlessly integrate with your existing infrastructure, handling the intricate setup process for a smooth transition. Our services also extend beyond DR to cover , data center modernization, and more.

WEI’s deep technical bench is equipped to assess your specific requirements and assist you in choosing the optimal solution from our diverse cloud DR portfolio. Contact us today to schedule a consultation with our experts and ensure business continuity in the face of any unforeseen disruption.

Next Steps: When considering the implementation of unified storage, WEI has identified two main options for enterprises to consider: a web-based sandbox or rolling out on-prem. Each approach offers distinct advantages, and businesses should choose the option that best aligns with specific needs and business objectives. Listen as WEI’s Senior Architect & Virtualization Ambassador, explains. 

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There is an ongoing shift to hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, requiring businesses to adopt agile and seamless approaches to workload management across multiple clouds. IT professionals managing enterprise and legacy applications may initially consider virtual machines for on-premise cloud solutions. However, it may be more beneficial to refactor applications using cloud-native technologies like containers, rather than relying on the lift and shift approach.

A lift and shift method may involve moving from traditional VM environments to cloud-based environments like EC2, EBS, or Azure. However, for most modern businesses, a hybrid approach is the best option. , a pioneer in hybrid cloud infrastructure, offers a viable solution to maintain and streamline operations while meeting business needs.

Introducing The Nutanix Cloud Platform

The Nutanix Cloud Platform is a comprehensive enterprise-grade solution that allows enterprises to build a hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure and support workloads and use cases across private and public clouds. The platform is designed to simplify hybrid cloud management, reduce operational costs, and provide a consistent experience across all clouds. It delivers powerful tools and capabilities that enable IT teams to manage, orchestrate, and automate their cloud operations from a single dashboard.

In this blog post, we explore how the Nutanix Cloud Platform helps organizations accelerate value in multiple cloud environments and build a successful hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure.

Reducing Hybrid Cloud Complexity, Costs

Managing a hybrid cloud can be complicated, lengthy, and costly depending on the state of your existing IT infrastructure. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), an extension of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, offers a multi-cloud solution, eliminating the need for third-party cloud management. NC2 enables IT professionals to oversee their workloads in both private and public clouds through a single dashboard, streamlining administration while providing a comprehensive infrastructure view. It’s primarily designed to accelerate your hybrid cloud initiative.

NC2 also provides a range of other benefits, including:

• Simplified Deployment: The pre-configured infrastructure is easy to deploy and can be set up in no more than one hour, allowing you to start running workloads quickly.
• Reduced Costs: NC2 provides a portable license for your business and enables a single management system for private and public clouds, thereby reducing costs and the need for multiple management tools. No more cloud lock ins! IT also helps soften the impact of common hidden cloud costs such as:
  • Cloud instance network performance limits require larger instances
  • Egress out from cloud is greater than anticipated
  • Disk performance requires provisioned IOPS, overallocation of disk, or ultra disk
• Improved Performance: Enable consistent performance across private and public clouds, ensuring that workloads always run at peak efficiency.

Improved Risk Management

The Nutanix Cloud Platform offers comprehensive security features such as encryption, access management, and network security to keep data safe and secure in both private and public clouds. This is crucial in light of increasing cyber threats and helps businesses manage risks in hybrid cloud operations.

Additionally, the platform automates management tasks, reducing the need for manual intervention, and ensuring a seamless and up-to-date cloud infrastructure. It also provides tools such as automation, orchestration, and workload mobility to improve efficiency and reduce downtime and costs.

Accelerating Value In The Public Cloud

The Nutanix Cloud Platform offers businesses a consistent management experience across all clouds, allowing for efficient deployment of workloads and applications. This enables companies to leverage the scalability and flexibility of public clouds without compromising performance or security. Additionally, the platform’s automation and orchestration capabilities enable IT teams to optimize cloud operations, automate common tasks, and focus on strategic initiatives.

Nutanix can accelerate your public cloud journey while maintaining security and compliance standards, offering a 30% cost reduction and decreased risk compared to traditional native cloud solutions. The platform provides additional benefits, including:

• Cloud Bursting: The Nutanix Cloud Platform allows you to quickly scale workloads to the public cloud, providing additional capacity when needed.
• Streamlined Migration: It provides tools to simplify the migration of workloads from on-premises to the public cloud. This reduces the time and effort required to move workloads, ensuring a faster time to value.
• Multi-Cloud Management: The platform provides a single management plane for private and public clouds, simplifying the management of workloads across multiple environments.

Final Thoughts

In a world where enterprises are driven to keep up with ever-evolving market dynamics, the Nutanix Cloud Platform provides the necessary hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure for businesses. It simplifies management and reduces operational costs while improving efficiency by aggregating private, public, and edge clouds into one control plane, thereby eradicating the need for multiple cloud solutions. Furthermore, organizations can benefit from NC2’s comprehensive suite of services that emphasize agility without sacrificing security or compliance requirements.

As a Nutanix partner for over a decade, WEI specializes in pre-sales, design, architecture, deployments, and works closely with clients to ensure a seamless hybrid cloud deployment experience. By utilizing Nutanix products, businesses can achieve increased efficiency, improved visibility, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced security for their critical data. Ultimately, WEI and Nutanix make trustworthy partners for any organization seeking resilient hybrid cloud solutions.

If you’re ready to make the necessary changes to your systems, contact our account team at WEI for more information and a comprehensive hybrid cloud demonstration.

Next steps: WEI recently welcomed Nutanix Systems Engineering Director Michael Berthiaume to discuss how the Nutanix Cloud Platform can help build your hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. He also identified how it can support workloads and use cases across private and public clouds. Here’s a snippet of the conversation:

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As an industry, it can be argued that healthcare experienced the greatest number of technological challenges at the height of the pandemic. Identifying and implementing the technology that was required for the early months of Covid tested even the most experienced of IT leaders. Radical changes occurred for administrative personnel, clinical personnel, and of course, patients and their families.

While many workplaces opted for a remote-only model, healthcare network teams everywhere had to support the needs of on-site operations and remote operations. This was on top of keeping hospitals, emergency rooms, urgent care centers, and critical outpatient clinics running as smoothly as possible. Never before had the needs of on-site clinicians, whose jobs were done under heavy duress, been so critical. The same goes for remote knowledge workers and honorable clinicians conducting their first telehealth appointments. 

Prior to 2020, telehealth was not an unknown concept to hospitals and the smaller clinics within their networks. However, it wasn’t exactly a focal point of care for most providers, either. The urgent need to discover innovative ways for clinicians to see patients and to allow staff to work safely from home accelerated the adoption of telehealth services and a focus on end-user computing transformation. Fast forward to summer 2022, and it’s clear this practice is unlikely to disappear once the pandemic is behind us. We now see how technology can help deliver healthcare services and lower critical operational costs. 

The Importance Of End-User Computing Transformation

The healthcare industry will continue to face challenges over the next few decades. A 2019 study by the found that by 2050, will be over the age of 65 and living with a chronic disease. This will inevitably result in an increase in healthcare spending and further the need for providers to reduce costs where they can to ensure funds are spent on patient care, not business processes.

The adoption of cloud-based end-user computing can improve productivity, help clinicians provide meaningful care, and enable technology teams to redesign services and approaches to healthcare. Ultimately, this allows for more virtual care and productive remote work. Despite this, there is immense pressure on healthcare providers to ensure the largest piece of the budget goes to clinical use cases as opposed to technology. 

The challenge, then, is to convince healthcare organizations that improving the end-user computing experience can deliver significant benefits.

As one health service CIO states, “We must also get past the notion that technology is unaffordable, and that the longer-term investment in technology, to enable care, should come ahead of shorter-term investment to address immediate pressures on healthcare services like staffing.” 

The Demand For Telehealth Services

Perhaps the biggest technology-led change we’ve seen in the healthcare industry is the increase in telehealth options for both inpatients and outpatients. Telehealth services enable patients and their trusted providers to be more connected and engage in real-time communication. Of course, if encouraged, patients can meet with their providers live and in-person, but if a routine appointment can be done remotely, then why not take advantage of this newfound convenience? Overworked and understaffed hospital personnel welcome the decrease in patient/visitor traffic, while safeguarding against the spread of infection is also being applied. 

Additionally, telehealth services provide remote access to health assessments, consultations, diagnoses, interventions, and more. Not only do patients have the ability to schedule an interactive telehealth appointment, but technology also allows them to receive appointment reminders, read critical notifications, view test results in a responsive patient portal and even utilize wearable devices that provide metrics on various health concerns. 

The increase in telehealth services, however, does create challenges for healthcare IT teams. Deploying and supporting these solutions with the necessary scalability, availability, and security needed introduces significant difficulties for these already overworked teams. 

Nutanix And Cybersecurity In The Healthcare Industry

The use of telehealth services, while beneficial to both the patient and the provider, opens up the potential for an increase in cyberattacks. In fact, of healthcare organizations experienced a ransomware attack in 2021, nearly double the number of attacks in 2020. There is clearly a significant need for health organizations to ensure their data is protected and that malware and ransomware are prevented. 

End-user computing improves security by eliminating the need to store data on a physical desktop that can be lost or stolen. Instead, private information is stored in a datacenter where it is managed, monitored, and protected.

Nutanix can help your telehealth services run more smoothly and efficiently with a focus on cybersecurity and protecting your organization from cybercriminals. It gives healthcare organizations the freedom to build modern hybrid and multi-cloud solutions with choice, simplicity, and flexibility, and delivers cloud-ready infrastructure combining compute, storage, virtualization, and networking, regardless of location. 

Among others, the benefits of utilizing for your end-user computing are:

• Built-in auditing and remediation: The software remains in compliance and doesn’t deviate from the original secure configuration.
• Streamlined patches and updates: Simplified upgrades for all software and firmware.
• Data-at-Rest Encryption: All data is encrypted using flexible methods.
• Least-privilege access: Users receive the least amount of privilege necessary for their roles.
• Role-based access control: Different security policies can be assigned to different groups and administrative levels.

Technology in the healthcare industry will continue to evolve, and with it comes the need to ensure your organization stays focused on end-user computing and cybersecurity. To learn more about how Nutanix can help your enterprise, contact WEI today.

Next Steps: Recent years have shown how critical the need for greater elasticity really is. This has accelerated the transition to hybrid cloud architectures that utilize the appropriate mix of both private and public clouds. Today’s advanced HCI solutions are designed for this new era. Download our tech brief titled,

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According to , 92% of organizations adopted a multi-cloud approach in 2021. Cloud strategies allow your enterprise to increase flexibility, consistently update, foster greater agility, and enable rapid innovation. However, there are a number of common cloud adoption mistakes enterprises struggle with due to the lack of proper cloud strategy, planning, and governance mechanisms.

In this article, we identify the top seven cloud adoption mistakes and provide a roadmap to help your enterprise avoid them.

Top Seven Cloud Adoption Mistakes

As many organizations adopt the cloud, there are small mistakes being made that prevent them from developing a strong cloud strategy. Here are the top seven mistakes enterprises often make while adopting the cloud:

1. Maintaining an old infrastructure mindset.
2. Absence of upfront governance policies.
3. A lack of control provisioning resources.
4. Underutilizing the “pay-as-you-go” model.
5. Forsaking continuous cleanup.
6. Not pursuing a DevOps culture.
7. A lack of automated remediation capabilities.

Your Roadmap To Avoid Cloud Adoption Mistakes

Cloud adoption can be challenging; however, having a successful cloud strategy can make your transition as seamless and manageable as possible. The following roadmap can prevent your enterprise from making costly cloud adoption mistakes.

1. Change your mindset: Understand that your existing infrastructure may be incompatible with the cloud system. Assess what you have, your existing data center, and your business objectives and link them to your cloud adoption strategy.
2. Create customized governance policies: To prevent uncontrolled cloud spending and enable more accurate resource planning for each business unit, your enterprise must define each core governance structure and clearly articulate its processes.
3. Gain control over the provisioning process: Your enterprise must perform application and infrastructure vulnerability assessments regularly. Additionally, it’s imperative to have an established security checklist to ensure vulnerabilities don’t increase.
4. Utilize the “pay-as-you-go” model: Investing in a cloud management platform will help your enterprise save costs by tracking underutilized resources and identifying recurring expenditures.
5. Eliminate wasteful resources: Organizations must develop a “consume or eliminate” process. Using as-a-Service platforms makes managing the cloud more efficient by allowing you to monitor all resources to determine if they’re underutilized.
6. Incorporate a DevOps culture: Reduce manual effort and increase reliability within your IT and engineering teams with a culture that values DevOps. Enterprises experience higher business value and better alignment with IT through breaking down silos and building flexible, software-enabled infrastructures.
7. Understand cloud compliance and security: Take a security-first approach with a cloud infrastructure that sustains business continuity and compliance. This lowers costs, minimizes risks, and reduces complexities in the infrastructure.

How Nutanix Can Prevent Cloud Adoption Mistakes

Nutanix Beam is a multi-cloud governance service that provides enterprises deep visibility and rich analytics. It monitors your cloud consumption patterns and proactively identifies idle and underused resources. The solution also provides one-click fixes for cost optimization and security compliances across your cloud environment. This solution also identifies vulnerabilities in real-time using policy-based automation to resolve potential threats before they become concerns.

Beam will allow your enterprise to gain complete visibility, optimization, and control over your cloud consumption to ensure cost governance and security compliance. With Beam, you’ll have a successful cloud strategy that gives your developers the freedom to experiment and scale with ease, provision on-demand IT resources, and focus on rapid IT service delivery.

Here at WEI, we’re a trusted, independent resource to help vet cloud technologies, architectures, and the growing world of cloud service providers. We help enterprise IT teams to outline exactly what they need for an efficient, cost-effective cloud strategy. Contact WEI today to find out if Nutanix Beam is the best solution for your enterprise’s cloud strategy.

Next Steps: The recent challenges presented by the global pandemic showed how critical the need for greater elasticity really is. This has accelerated the transition to hybrid cloud architectures that utilize the appropriate mix of both private and public clouds. Today’s advanced HCI solutions are designed for this new era. Download our tech brief titled,

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For your modern IT organization to be successful, you need to be more visible, expedite service delivery, and place more emphasis on enabling the business to extract value from data.

In this article we discuss the modern-day challenges IT organizations face and how HPE GreenLake with Nutanix can provide three key solutions.

Modern Enterprise Challenges

There is a disconnect between business objectives and business demands when it comes to IT organizations. According to ESG research, “nearly nine in ten organizations expect to run 50% or more of their workloads on-premises.” IT departments, however, are held to a different standard: the hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Does your IT department find itself spending too much time managing individual infrastructure components due to two systems you have to manage (on-premises and hybrid cloud)? With the lack of IT resources, this fuels the growing adoption of cloud services, and the high number of additional workloads stretches your IT departments too thin. On top of that there has been a limited amount of talent or budget to support your IT department which affects the scalability of an organization to meet the myriad of demands.

How HPE And Nutanix Meet Business Expectations

Modern organizations need to implement a cloud-like, consumption-based model for their IT departments. This is where HPE GreenLake and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud come into play for your business.

is a fully managed, scalable IT infrastructure service offering a cloud-like consumption model for on-premises infrastructures. Your organization can choose the most appropriate services based on your needs and have the option to pay as you go. HPE GreenLake is easily scaled with the added advantage of an onsite buffer when extra capacity is needed.

Nutanix delivers a complete IT infrastructure with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of the cloud, and the security, performance, and cost predictability of traditional on-premises infrastructures. It satisfies application workloads from end-user computing environments with VDI to mission-critical database applications that serve as the backbone of the business.

HPE GreenLake With Nutanix: 3 Key Solutions

Thankfully, your organization doesn’t have to choose between the two services as HPE and Nutanix have collaborated to better support customers. concentrates on three key solutions to address modern IT organization challenges:

1. End-User Computing Infrastructure: As an end-user, computing infrastructure releases your IT personnel from routine, labor-intensive tasks to instead work on value-added initiatives by providing you faster and easier deployment and management to your VDI and DaaS infrastructures. This enables your IT department to supply users with the applications they need with strengthened security.

2. Database Infrastructure: The consolidates disparate workloads into one efficient management platform by streamlining your database deployment, management, and operations. Your organization can rapidly provision, clone, patch, refresh, and perform backups, while the pay-as-you-go model drastically reduces expenses by eliminating upfront capital expenditures.

3. Private Cloud Infrastructure: Private cloud infrastructure provides IT organizations the ability to reliably deliver applications and data at any scale and provision, update, and perform disaster recovery with one click. It allows your organization to support business-critical workloads by bringing together the agility of on-premise with the security and flexibility of a private cloud.

For your modern IT organizations to thrive, you must embrace an as-a-service delivery model. HPE GreenLake with Nutanix supports your IT department in their journey to better align resources to your specific lines of business and has a wide variety of applications and infrastructure demands.

Interested In HPE and Nutanix’s Solutions?

To keep up with the demands of the digital world, enterprises must prioritize efficiency as the key focal point of their IT modernization strategy. HPE GreenLake with Nutanix enables your enterprise IT department to use the tools you need to be successful on your own terms. The strategic partnership between HPE and Nutanix has paved the way for improved operational efficiency, agility, and customer-centricity. If you’re ready to make the change now, contact WEI to find out how you can successfully implement HPE and Nutanix solutions to improve your organization’s end-user computing, database, or private cloud infrastructures.

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Let’s talk about clusters and clouds. We often associate the word “cluster” with terms such as redundancy, resiliency or workload distribution. IT admins have traditionally turned to clustering bare metal systems such as firewall appliances, web servers, and virtual hosting platforms for years. When we consider the “cloud” we think about characteristics such as limitless scalability, elasticity, and simplicity. Of course, the infrastructure that supports these cloud environments is derived from clustered infrastructures, hidden underneath SaaS and IaaS platforms and are thus inaccessible to customers.

Extend Nutanix Clusters Into The Cloud

But what if you extend your clusters into the cloud? You could have then the best of both worlds. That is what has delivered on, cloud-based clusters that reduce both the cost and complexity of today’s most complicated hybrid networks. Think of their solution as a cluster on steroids. For instance:

• In the same way that you are accustomed to firing up additional virtual machines within your on-premises HCI solution, you can now scale out, not only from a capacity perspective, but a geographical one as well. That’s because you can burst added capacity across multiple clouds in order to meet unforeseen demands from multiple regions of the world.
• What you giveth, you can also take back away. Idle machines cost money in an OPEX cloud model so let you spin down virtual machines and shrink capacities when demand fades in order to save money. Nutanix Clustering does one better than that, however. Not only can you hibernate VMs and their supporting resources, you can even hibernate the bare metal instances that support the cluster itself, saving you bare metal compute costs as well. Then simply resume these instances when they are needed again down the road. In other words, you aren’t just right-sizing your VM capacity, you’re also right-sizing your cluster infrastructure in real time as well. This is especially beneficial for , say for DevOps or seasonal-based businesses.

Watch how to hibernate VMs in this 2-minute demo from Nutanix

• Nutanix cloud-based clusters take redundancy to the next level as well as you can leverage public clouds for high availability and even if your primary workloads reside on-premises. Your disaster ready infrastructure can reside in faraway geographic reasons to ensure ultimate redundancy.

Cloud Like, But Not Cloud Only

The Nutanix HCI stack is available on AWS and Azure bare metal instances, fully extending the power of existing on-premises Nutanix HCI clusters into the cloud. But that doesn’t mean it is a cloud only solution. It also doesn’t mean that you are reliant on any third parties as is the usual case with cloud-based services. Nor are you locked into any particular cloud infrastructure. Using the Prism Central management interface, internal IT remains in complete control of their own environment, calling the shots as they see fit. Admins can now manage any Nutanix node, VM or application within their ecosphere from a single pane of glass. This not only simplifies administration but also allows you to maximize your resources to your mission critical workloads rather than management tasks. All of this allows for seamless integration on a number of levels. Here are three to consider:

1. It redefines the concept of “lift and shift” for applications. While lift and shift migrations might not involve a forklift, it often requires rearchitecting your applications in order to transition them to the cloud. By decoupling applications from their underlying platform, Nutanix gives you the ability to migrate on-premises applications to the cloud with minimal changes, thus saving you time and money.
2. Those applications that must be hosted by your on-premises Nutanix cluster can be modernized in cloud like fashion by allotting them direct access to native cloud services such as AI-based analytics and other advanced digital initiatives.
3. Not only are your applications completely portable now, so are your licenses. Current Nutanix customers can utilize existing Nutanix Capacity Based Licenses (CBL) and apply them to the cloud. Simply reduce or retire your existing on-premises clusters and apply them to the cloud. New customers hosting environments that have consistent workloads may want a commitment-based subscription plan while others may be better off with a pay-as-you-go structure.

A True Hybrid Cloud

There was a time when a network was comprised of a single data center. There was a time when an enterprise utilized a single cloud. Those days are long gone as businesses have evolved with the times, and so has Nutanix. HCI is no longer about on-premises hardware environments. Nutanix clusters are about incorporating all aspects of your hybrid cloud whether it be public or private clouds. Nutanix clusters operate in a borderless vacuum so that you can operate your applications and services in a hybrid estate that is void of confining perimeters. In the same way that the first Nutanix cluster solutions began busting up silos within the traditional data center, they’re now doing the same for multi-cloud environments as well. Nutanix clusters offer you the freedom of the cloud in terms of performance and portability. Exciting, right? Maximize your today by clustering everything into one extended platform.

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Batman and Superman. Iron Man and Captain America. Everyone loves when two giants in their own right come together for the common good. Simply put, everyone loves a superhero team up. Enter and .

Each offers a variety of solutions that propel enterprises through digital transformation and modernization efforts, including key cloud computing solutions. Through their partnership, HPE and Nutanix have gone one step further by offering enterprises a complete private cloud infrastructure integrated with software.

HPE And Nutanix Are Helping Enterprises Take Control Of The Cloud

As previously mentioned, HPE and Nutanix each stand in their own right when it comes to cloud computing.

In one corner you have , a fully managed, scalable IT infrastructure service, which offers enterprises a cloud-like consumption model for on-premises infrastructure. With GreenLake, HPE has cast aside the one-size-fits-all approach to supported technology by allowing enterprises to choose the most appropriate supported HPE or third-party technology. HPE also offers flexible pay-as-go models and makes it easy for enterprises to scale to their exact needs.

In the other corner is the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, a complete IT infrastructure which has the agility, scalability, and simplicity of the cloud, and the security, performance, and cost predictability of traditional on-premises infrastructure. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud offers additional benefit by spreading all data and processes across the entire cluster, which improves resource utilization, scalability, and performance predictability.

HPE And Nutanix Combined

Together, Nutanix and HPE are reinventing the way IT organizations build cloud infrastructure by combining the best of public cloud with the security and control of private cloud.

First up is , which feature built in integration with Nutanix software. Engineered to provide an infrastructure stack which is delivered either as an up-front purchase or as-a-service, this joint venture offers support for (VDI), built-in data protection, and additional third-party integrations right out of the box.

In terms of VDI, HPE ProLiant DX systems offer improved user performance and scalability, without the burden of high capital costs. IT organizations also have full remote replication capabilities, as well as backup to local systems, a remote site, or to the cloud.

In addition to the ProLiant DX systems, HPE and Nutanix have also collaborated to offer , which expands HPE GreenLake to run the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud as-a-service to support key areas.

For databases, HPE GreenLake with Nutanix mitigates common management challenges that come about due to the use of traditional infrastructure to support high-performance database operations. By streamlining database deployment, management, and operations, HPE GreenLake frees IT up for more complex and strategic projects.

Amongst its numerous other benefits, offers enterprises faster and easier deployment and management of VDI, as well as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) infrastructure. HPE GreenLake with Nutanix also simplifies bring-your-own-device and choose-your-own-device programs through the distribution of applications through SaaS models.

Additionally, the focus on private cloud infrastructure, supported by hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), allows enterprises to consolidate siloed workloads into just one management platform. HPE GreenLake with Nutanix also offers one-click database deployment, management, and operations, simplifying the management process even further.

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Overall, HPE GreenLake with Nutanix and the ProLiant DX family of systems are offering enterprises additional flexibility, security, and efficiency when it comes to cloud computing, as well as flexible billing options and support for remote workforces.

Ready to Master The Cloud With HPE And Nutanix?

While many enterprises have made moves to adopt cloud computing, truly mastering the cloud is another thing entirely. HPE and Nutanix are both leading the charge in the development of cloud software and through their partnership, they are offering the cloud solutions enterprises need to succeed in today’s digital world. If you’re ready to make the change now, contact WEI to begin building a custom solution for your business.

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For today’s enterprises, IT’s role has shifted beyond just keeping the lights on. With the strategic adoption of certain key solutions, enterprises can refocus IT to improve many aspects of doing business and turn IT into a revenue generator, instead of just a source of costs.

For the above reasons, enterprises are increasingly choosing to make use of multiple cloud solutions and deployment models to modernize and improve the agility of the business. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has also grown in popularity as a way to support the integrations between public cloud applications platforms, while also offering a common management platform for the entire hybrid cloud environment.

In this article, we’ll be discussing one such HCI solution, . This is the second article of a two-part series, where we share the proven benefits of this solution, as reported by and based on real customer feedback.

In the first article, we discussed the business and operational benefits of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Below, we’ll examine the IT staff and cost benefits.

1. Improved staff efficiency

Due to a variety of features provided by Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, including the single point of management through integration with and efficiencies related to having consolidated and common pools of compute and storage resources, enterprises reap significant staff efficiency benefits when implementing the solution.

In IDC’s study, participants noted that the ease of management offered an opportunity for their teams to spend more time innovating, as well as increasing staff satisfaction for those IT personnel utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

IDC’s study noted the following areas where participants saw efficiency gains:

• On average, participants noted deployment required 57% less time with Nutanix compared to other infrastructures.
• On average, participants saw a 61% increase in efficiency for help desk support.
• On average, participants saw a 28% increase in efficiency for security management.

Other areas where participants noted efficiency gains included data protection activities and infrastructure management.

2. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud offers more cost-effective IT infrastructure

As reported in IDC’s study, participants found that Nutanix Enterprise Cloud serves as a “more cost-effective IT infrastructure than study participants’ legacy infrastructure.”

By avoiding the need for SANs, being able to consolidate hardware through running multiple workloads on each node, and additional hardware operational efficiencies, enterprises are able to reduce costs associated with maintaining infrastructure.

IDC calculates that those interviewed in the study will spend 38% less over five years for hardware, maintenance fees, and power and facilities costs when running Nutanix environments compared to other options.

3. Lower operational costs for IT infrastructure

The previously noted features of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, which offer more cost-effective IT infrastructure, also lower overall operational costs. Between hardware, maintenance costs, IT staff time costs, and other areas where Nutanix offers improvements, overall IT costs are heavily reduced, allowing those funds to be reallocated elsewhere or invested back into IT improvements.

In their report, IDC found that study participants were able to run equivalent applications and workloads at a significantly lower cost than with legacy solutions. The average cost reduction among participants was 62%.

IDC’s analysis on the return on investment of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud concludes that the organizations interviewed as part of the study will achieve a “five-year ROI of 477% and break even on their investment in nine months.”

Overall, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud offers strong value for enterprise customers, regardless of the scale or industry the business falls into. Nutanix customers confirm these findings, with many describing increases to IT agility and performance, support for business objectives, and reduced operational risk, while also benefiting from the increased cost savings and efficiency of the solution.

Are you interested in Nutanix Enterprise Cloud?

As a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in HCI solutions, Nutanix is helping enterprises around the world get the most out of their IT environment. If you’re interested in getting started with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, contact WEI to start a discussion.

This blog post is part of a 2-part series about the actual cost savings from real Nutanix Enterprise Cloud customers. click here to read part one.

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Over the last handful of years, the adoption of private and public cloud solutions has revolutionized enterprise IT and offered a level of operational agility that was previously unheard of.

Today, enterprises are increasingly choosing to make use of multiple cloud solutions and deployment models. To properly manage and administer these hybrid cloud environments, many organizations have turned to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), which offers the ability to support integrations between public cloud application platforms, as well as a common management platform for the entire hybrid cloud environment.

One such HCI solution is . In this two-part blog series, we will discuss the proven benefits of this solution, as reported by and based on real customer feedback.

As part of the research process for the study and subsequent report, IDC interviewed organizations “with experience with or knowledge about (Nutanix Enterprise Cloud’s) benefits and costs. The interviews covered a variety of quantitative and qualitative questions about the impact of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on their overall IT costs, operations and businesses.”

In this first article, we take a look at the most prevalent business and operational benefits of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

1. Improved IT Agility Delivering Storage and Compute ����ֱ��

In the study conducted by IDC, participants shared that through utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, they saw significant agility improvements when it came to deploying and upgrading core compute and storage environments.

Various capabilities of the solution contributed to enhancing agility in these areas, including “having a common pool of storage and compute resources, the ability to easily add capacity to their Nutanix environments, automated provisioning of resources, and offering self-service to users.”

According to IDC, participants saw the following benefits when utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud:

• Average time to deploy new storage systems was 82% faster
• Average staff time to deploy each system was reduced by 85%
• Average time to update storage systems was 70% faster
• Average staff time for updates was reduced by 66%
• Average time to deploy new physical servers was 53% faster
• Average staff time to deploy new physical servers was reduced by 44%

2. Improved Data Protection and Reduced Operational Risk

IDC’s study also found that participants reported improved business continuity and reduced operational risk when utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. This was achieved by “reducing the frequency of unplanned outages affecting applications and services running on their platforms and having more robust data backup and recovery environments.”

According to IDC, participants reported:

• An 85% reduction in unplanned downtime
• A 72% increase in the frequency of data backups
• A 29% increase in data recovery efforts completed within the objective

By reducing the frequency and impact of unplanned outages, enterprises utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud are also reducing the costs associated with these business interruptions. This offers an opportunity for organizations to put those cost savings to work by investing it back into the backup environment.

3. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Offers A Business-Enabling IT Platform

It’s never been more apparent than now how essential business agility and adaptability is to an enterprise. For organizations utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, many of the challenges associated with managing a highly distributed workforce and its data are vastly reduced.

Participants in IDC’s study found that they saw improved customer satisfaction, faster onboarding of new branches and partners, and the ability to increase focus on business objectives when utilizing Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

IDC identified that the support Nutanix Enterprise Cloud offers to business activities results in a higher average revenue, which IDC quantified to be an average of $932,800 per organization per year.

When it comes to VDI, participants in IDC’s study also reported benefiting from faster VDI application performance and found it was easier to extend their VDI environments with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. This translates to improved productivity from employees at these organizations.

Are You Interested In Nutanix Enterprise Cloud?

The data in IDC’s study and the feedback from its participants makes it clear that Nutanix Enterprise Cloud makes a positive impact on business and operational activities for the organizations that deploy it. Enterprises of all types and from a variety of industries are adopting this solution to modernize data centers, improve IT response time and refocus IT on activities that generate revenue instead of just keeping the status quo.

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Ever since the mainstream adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, organizations have been seeking the benefits of public cloud, while still wanting to retain the control of data center operations.

For this reason, among others, many enterprises have worked their way towards a hybrid cloud model, which offers the best of both worlds.

However, for truly successful hybrid cloud operations, enterprises must acknowledge and seek solutions for the pain points that are unique to this technology. A discusses this topic in detail, and we’ve pulled the top 5 strategies for hybrid cloud success to share here.

1. Create a unified infrastructure control plane

As shared in the report, separate cloud environments can have wildly differing management interfaces and expertise in one cloud environment doesn’t necessarily translate to another. Cloud management is typically siloed as well, with each cloud platform having its own management team. All this combined, plus the limited interoperability between clouds, results in a lack of integration throughout the network.

To solve these issues, O’Reilly recommends unifying infrastructure management through a single control plane that can be applied everywhere. Once the control plane is selected, the next step is to modernize data center infrastructure to use that control plane as much as possible and specifically choose public clouds that you allow to use it. More information on this strategy can be found in .

2. Streamline the application lifecycle

Once infrastructure management has been dealt with, the next place to focus attention is the application lifecycle.

As shared in O’Reilly’s report, the utilization of hybrid cloud environments has rapidly increased user expectations for speed and accessibility. Application deployment is also more complex in a cloud environment, with different cloud platforms requiring different tools, processes, and additional effort from IT.

Other complications come from the need for scaling during periods of peak load, and the differing needs between cloud native and traditional enterprise applications.

Overall, the application lifecycle is a major area of improvement for hybrid cloud environments. O’Reilly suggests the use of automation to shorten delivery time and avoid the risk of human errors. It can also help evolve the organizational structures of cloud platforms to be more fluid and less reliant on specialists for the day-to-day management tasks.

3. Simplify application migration

Traditionally, application migration between clouds requires modifying the application to be compatible with the environment to which it’s being migrated. However, if the first strategy recommended by O’Reilly has been put in place, it’s much easier and eliminates the need for complex migrations.

Utilizing the second strategy to streamline application management also positively contributes to application migration, and between the two, the need for re-platforming or refactoring can be reduced or even eliminated.

4. Utilize consistent security policies

Despite all the benefits of cloud computing, it also comes with its own specific security challenges. As shared by O’Reilly, “As with infrastructure management in general, the default for hybrid cloud security is a siloed approach that increases complexity and risk.”

Some of the complexity comes from the need for separate security models and tools for each cloud, while even more comes from not having a global view of security due to the siloed approach.

That said, there are a number of security solutions that are available for hybrid and multicloud environments. To pick the right solution, O’Reilly emphasizes the importance of evaluating your organization’s requirements and the skills of your security team.

5. Track cloud spending

It isn’t news that hybrid cloud environments complicate IT spending and keeping track of it, but it certainly does not have to be complex. While many organizations make use of spreadsheets or other traditional methods to track of costs, O’Reilly suggests making use of a specific cost management tool to get spending optimized and under control. These solutions often come with tools that offer costing analysis and the ability to identify areas where you can reduce spending.

Similar to the fourth strategy, it’s important to evaluate your requirements and the skills of your team before choosing a solution.

Are You Looking For Hybrid Cloud Solutions?

Now that we’ve discussed the steps that can put you on a path of hybrid cloud success, we’d like to suggest as a solution provider for your hybrid cloud needs. Better known as the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure and the premier enterprise cloud solution provider, Nutanix offers a large (and evolving) portfolio of tools to simplify your hybrid cloud deployment and reduce overall IT costs.

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When it comes to pieces of the IT puzzle where skimping or going with the option that’s just “good enough” will inevitably come back to haunt you, backup and disaster recovery tops the list.

, a global leader in backup and replication software, and , an innovator of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), have teamed up to offer Veeam Backup for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) giving enterprises data resiliency, protection and unparalleled data access, regardless of the workload type or location.

Before we jump into the additional benefits of this partner solution, let’s talk a bit about each of them individually.

Veeam Backup Replication V10

Veeam’s is an industry-leading BUDR solution that offers availability for cloud, virtual, and physical workloads though a simple management console. Backups are easy to recover, reducing operational costs and getting enterprises back on their feet faster.

In their latest update, Veeam added a host of , including network attached storage (NAS) capabilities for data protection and recovery, storage snapshots support, and a forever-incremental backup engine.

To help enterprises defend again ransomware attacks, Veeam also added an immutable backups feature, which protects recent backup copies from unauthorized changes or deletions though S3 Object Lock.

Nutanix AHV

is a native hypervisor solution which integrates with Nutanix’s enterprise Cloud OS stack. It offers secure, enterprise-grade virtualization to give enterprises an easy way to manage storage, with the added the benefits of built-in security practices, low operational costs and optimal performance for even the most demanding applications.

To reduce the IT burden, Nutanix prioritized ease-of-use, allowing administrators to effortlessly manage storage and virtualization all from one place.

Use cases include server visualization for Linux distributions and Microsoft server and desktop operating systems, VDI and DaaS, infrastructure and databases, and remote or branch offices.

The perfect backup and data protection pair: Veeam backup for Nutanix AHV

While both solutions are effective options on their own, combining them offers enterprises a new, agentless approach for virtualized environments.

Management functionality, including job management scheduling, data compression and duplication, retention policies, and other backup and restore activities, is conducted within the AHV Proxy, leaving the Veeam backup server to operate as a repository, reducing overall complexity.

In the event of a BUDR emergency, the restoration begins with the backup data, provided by the AHV Proxy though the use of snapshots. This allows for complete file and disk level restoration and the simplicity of the solution’s design guarantees fast recovery.

The flexibility of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV offers a host of different options for backups, including converting them into VMDK, VHD or VHDX formats for use in various virtual or testing environments. Likewise, the unmatched performance of the solution and instant recovery options reduces disruptions and downtime, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted end-user experience.

With the recent updates to Veeam Backup Replication, Backup for Nutanix AHV also has , including:

• Console integration which displays job status, start/stop/disable jobs, and the option to launch the proxy web user interface.
• No additional licenses are required for the proxy appliance as the license management is solely performed by the Veeam Backup Replication server.
• New VeeamZIP support for AHV workloads, easily accessed through the Veeam Backup Replication console.

Additionally, the restore features of the solution also underwent improvements, including the addition of live file-level recovery through AHC FLR Appliance, entire VM restoration though Veeam’s universal VMK backup file format, AHV snapshot restores and the addition of instant VM recovery.

has also been integrated within the solution, as well as support, which provides protected VM reports on AHV backups.

Ready to discover the benefits of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV?

Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV offers enterprises a way to modernize data centers through increase agility and simplicity with the confidence is data is highly available for your enterprise users. The solution is designed for ease-of-use and centralized management, reducing IT costs and time spent administering backups.

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• Best practices for protecting and restoring your data
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Read the white paper today and please contact us to talk to our backup experts with any questions about modernizing your backup or improving your data protection strategy.

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